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Very clever way to make sure the programming language never gains any significant traction. ;)
by dpc_pw 10y ago
Very clever way to make sure the programming language never gains any significant traction. ;)
- gizmo686 10y agoHaskell: avoid success at all costs.
- Ixiaus 10y agoOnly if your program doesn't type-check ;)
- bitwize 10y agoObviously the solution is to encode success into the type system, such that functions which increase the chance Haskell will become a mainstream programming language fail to type-check.
- Magnap 10y agoPeople keep saying this as if it were meant to be parsed "(avoid success) (at all costs)", but in fact it's supposed to be "avoid (success at all costs)", in other words "principles > popularity".
- dllthomas 10y agoI've always understood it to be, simultaneously, jokingly the former and seriously the latter.
- mrkgnao 10y agohttps://xkcd.com/1312/ https://xkcd.com/1312/